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View SlideshowRequest to buy this photoDeborah Cannon | Associated PressOlivia Alvarado touches the hand of Jesus on a painting she recovered from her flood-damaged home in Austin, Texas. The area was heavily flooded after Thursday storms.

A violent Halloween storm swept from the Gulf Coast to the eastern Great Lakes, killing at least
five people — four in Texas and one in Tennessee — and contributing to the overturning of a school
bus in a rain-swollen creek in Kansas.

The National Weather Service received 230 reports of high winds across 12 states from Louisiana
to Pennsylvania, and reports of tornadoes in Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana and Texas,
although none caused major damage.

In Nashville, a 9-year-old boy was electrocuted by a downed power line, Metro Nashville Police
said.

“It has not been determined exactly how he contacted the wire, which was knocked down by a large
tree limb during high winds,” police said in a statement. Local television stations reported that
he was on his bike when he made contact with the wire.

Fallen power lines littered Tennessee in the wake of 40- to 50-mph winds, said Scott Unger of
the National Weather Service in Nashville. Thousands lost power, officials said.

Many towns and cities in the path of the storm had postponed trick-or-treating.

Four people died in Texas from the storm, officials said.

A man’s body was found on Thursday in a swollen creek in Austin, officials said. Bodies of a
31-year-old woman and her 8-month-old son were found yesterday in another Austin creek, about a
mile and a half from their car, Travis County sheriff’s spokesman Roger Wade said.

A man in rural Caldwell County, Texas, died on Thursday after being trapped in his car by high
water, officials said.

In rural south-central Kansas, a school bus slid off a low-lying, rain-covered road on Thursday.
It went into a creek and fell on its side, requiring the rescue of 10 children and the driver,
Chris Davis, 911 director for Butler County, said yesterday.

The 10 elementary school-age children climbed out the windows onto the side of the bus and were
rescued by boats in fast-moving water, Davis said. One child was taken to the hospital with minor
injures while the driver was hospitalized after suffering a back injury and hypothermia, Davis
said.